Blue MSX - History

History

Despite being a relatively new emulator, blueMSX has become one of the most accurate and user friendly emulators available since its 2003 debut.

Like many other MSX emulators, blueMSX started as a clone of fMSX in September 2003. The feature that made the first release, in November 2003, unique to the MSX emulator scene at the time, was the addition of monitor simulation. This feature made the video output look like an old TV or a monitor.

Initially, blueMSX's emulation was quite poor and suffered from the same limitations and flaws as its mother fMSX. However, the next six months the development focused on improving and replacing the misbehaving emulation code, as well as redesigning the software architecture. With better architecture, emulation of new devices became easier, and wasn't very long before most audio devices and ROM types were supported.

In August 2004 blueMSX became the first MSX emulator to support skins.

In November 2004, blueMSX was finally 100% free of fMSX code. The November release was also a big milestone since it brought support for the Turbo-R, the last MSX produced. On top of that, it was the first release that included emulation for the ColecoVision and the Spectravideo SV-328.

Since the November 2004 milestone, developer focus has been on improving the user interface and emulation accuracy, as well as extending the emulation to include more exotic devices such as the Konami Keyboard Master, an unreleased speech synthesis ROM.

Recently, the emulator has added support for the SG-1000 computer systems and emulation of other systems such as SMS is on the roadmap.